Quotes About Logic

Je ne sais pas comment ça se passe chez vous, mais chez nous, c'est souvent comme ça, on saute d'un sujet à l'autre, parfois ça semble manquer un peu de logique et sovent ça en manque pour vrai, mais ce n'est pas vraiment important, ensuite on essaie de remonter le courant de la conversation comme des saumons et c'est comme du sport extrême, mais pour la tête.

She was trying to force her theory to make sense, but there were some annoying knobbly facts getting in the way. She had the uneasy feeling that she was thumping mismatched jigsaw pieces together to make them fit.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

Romantic Egoist Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.

I have a pretty good idea that when I am given the final countdown I will not go gentle into that good night. No matter how logical a mind one possesses, when faced with the concept of a black hole without end the synapses rev into overdrive, leaving logic in the dust.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

All reasoning is basically circular. Logic is a device we use to make the circles as large as possible.

It is true that humans are not logic machines. But, remember, emotion is a response. Not a stimulus.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Know what you know. Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess. Andrew

Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

Good point. But I still go with the Sherlock Holmes axiom." "What's that?" "I'm paraphrasing, but basically Sherlock warned that you should never theorize before you have the facts because then you twist the facts to suit the theory instead of twisting the theory to suit the facts." Brandon